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Entering the Path of Enlightenment: The Bodhicaryāvatāra of the Buddhist Poet Śāntideva

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• A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
• A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life of Shantideva (2002)
• A Short Presentation of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• A Study of Akṣayamati (Śāntideva)'s Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra as Found in the Tibetan Manuscripts From Tun-huang
• A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajñāpāramitā Pariccheda) of the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati
• Account of the Period of the Kings Cala, Pañcamasiṃha and Others
• Akṣayamati and Śāntideva
• Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra als Lehrschrift und Vorhaben: Zum Thema Ritual, Religion, Philosophie und Mystik im Buddhismus
• Bodhicaryāvatāra-pañjikā VIII.90-103 by Prajñākaramati, Commenting on Śāntideva
• Bodhicaryāvatāra: Governing the Bodhisattvas Way of Life
• Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana
• Bu ston on the sPyod 'jug (Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra)
• Buddha Mind - Christ Mind
• Buddha's Lions
• Buddhist Texts Through the Ages
• Die Aufnahme des Erleuchtungsgeistes: Eine Übersetzung von Prajñākaramatis Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā 3.1-19
• Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
• Entering the Path of Enlightenment
• Entering the Path of Enlightenment-Review by Cook
• Entering the Path of Enlightenment-Review by Seyfort Ruegg
• Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva
• Ethics in the Śikṣāsamuccaya: A Study in Mahāyāna Morality
• Facts or Fictions: Reconsidering Śāntideva's Names, Life, and Works
• Fierce Devotion to all Beings: The Role of Emotions in Śāntideva’s Introduction to the Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryāvatāra)
• General Introduction: Śāntideva and His World
• Gleichheit und Mitgefühl: Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zu Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89-108
• How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)
• Indian Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy after Nagarjuna, Vol. 2
• La légende de Śāntideva
• Mahasiddhas: La vie de 84 sages de l'Inde
• Masters of Mahāmudrā
• Mental Purification (Blo sbyong): A Native Tibetan Genre of Religious Literature
• Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness
• Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
• Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya-Review by Osto
• Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue-Review by Goodman
• On Akṣayamati's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• On Learning to Overhear the "Vanishing Poet"
• Prajñākaramati on Śāntideva's Case Against Anger: A Translation of Bodhicaryāvatāra-pañjikā VI.1-69
• Proof of the Authenticity of the Mahāyāna in Akṣayamati's Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
• Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
• Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice-Review by Harris
• Reason, Irrationality and Akrasia (Weakness of the Will) in Buddhism: Reflections upon Śāntideva's Arguments with Himself
• Remarks on Akṣayamati (Blo gros mi zad pa), Being the Author of the Earlier Version of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• Santideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Santideva's Bodhicharyavatara (Weeraratne)
• Santideva, un mistico del Buddhismo
• Shantideva (From Butön's History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet, Translated by Lisa Stein and Ngawang Zangpo)
• Shantideva (Nariman)
• Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara: An Internal Pilgrimage to Universal Peace and Compassion
• Shantideva's Teaching
• Shāntideva (Tib. Shi-wa-lha)
• Stotra, Psychological Conditioning, and the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Together with a Translation of the Bodhicittānuśaṃsapariccheda
• Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryāvatāra (2000)
• The Bodhi-caryâvatāra and Its Monastic Aspects: On the Problem of Representation
• The Bodhicaryāvatāra: A Guide to the Buddhist Path to Awakening
• The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature
• The Center of the Sunlit Sky
• The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Diss)
• The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva
• The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva-Review by Abramson
• The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva-Review by Javanaud
• The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva-Review by O'Leary
• The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India
• The Mahāsiddha Bhusuku (Śāntideva), The Idle Monk
• The Masters and Poets of the Mahāyāna
• The Path of Light (1909)
• The Path of Light (1959)
• The Perfection of Wisdom (Schopen)
• The Resolve to Become a Buddha
• The Training Anthology of Śāntideva
• The Triskandha, Practice in Three Parts: Study of an Early Mahāyāna Buddhist Ritual
• Śāntideva (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Śāntideva (Potter, Kalupahana, and Sweet)
• Śāntideva (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Śāntideva and Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Śāntideva and the Mādhyamika: The Prajñāpāramitā-Pariccheda of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Śāntideva as a Mantracarin
• Śāntideva in the History of Mādhyamika Philosophy
• Śāntideva, A Mystic of Buddhism
• Śāntideva, il Bodhicaryāvatāra e le kārikā del Śikṣāsamuccaya
• Śāntideva, il Bodhicaryāvatāra e le kārikā del Śikṣāsamuccaya-Review by Pāsādika
• Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles
• Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles-Review by Cabezón
• Śāntideva: The Author and His Project
• Śāntidevas Bodhicaryāvatāra: Das Weiterwirken des Werkes dargestellt anhand der Überlieferungsgeschichte des Textes und seiner Kommentare
• Śāntidēva's Bodhicharyāvatāra

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Entering the Path of Enlightenment contains the first complete English translation of the Sanskrit Bodhicaryāvatāra. In this beautiful and moving classic of Mahāyāna Buddhism, Śāntideva, a monk at the famed Buddhist center of Nālānda in India, describes the Bodhisattva Vow—one of the major concepts of Buddhist belief.

In order to render the Bodhicaryāvatāra accessible to student and layman as well as specialist and scholar, Marion L. Matics divides the book into three parts: a guide which explains and interprets the Bodhicaryāvatāra and places it within the framework of the evolving history of Buddhist thought, the lucid translation itself, and appendices containing all the necessary tools for a thorough understanding of this celebrated work. (Source: back cover)

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Matics, Marion L., trans. Entering the Path of Enlightenment: The Bodhicaryāvatāra of the Buddhist Poet Śāntideva. London: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1970. https://archive.org/details/enteringpathofenlightenmentbodhicharyatvaofsantidevamarionmaticsl._245_J/mode/2up.

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Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Bodhicaryāvatāra [बोधिचर्यावतार]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།]. [The Way of the Bodhisattva]. Tengyur, RKTST 3216 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3216&typ=2.

Classical WorksAbout this item

An "Introduction to Bodhisattva Practice," the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra is a poem about the path of a bodhisattva, in ten chapters, written by the Indian Buddhist Śāntideva (fl. c. 685–763). One of the masterpieces of world literature, it is a core text of Mahāyāna Buddhism and continues to be taught, studied, and commented upon in many languages and by many traditions around the world. The main subject of the text is bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration for enlightenment, and the path and practices of the bodhisattva, the six perfections (pāramitās). The text forms the basis of many contemporary discussions of Buddhist ethics and philosophy.

2 Reviews

Cook, Francis H. Review of Entering the Path of Enlightenment: The Bodhicaryāvatāra of the Buddhist Poet Śāntideva, by Marion L. Matics. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 40, no. 1 (1972): 122–24.

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Francis Cook's review of Entering the Path of Enlightenment, by Marion L. Matics, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion 40, no. 1 (1972): 122–24.

Ruegg, David Seyfort. Review of Entering the Path of Enlightenment: The Bodhicaryāvatāra of the Buddhist Poet Śāntideva, by Marion L. Matics. Journal of the American Oriental Society 97, no. 1 (1977), 88-89.

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David Seyfort Ruegg's review of Entering the Path of Enlightenment, by Marion L. Matics, published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 97, no. 1 (1977), 88-89.

Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Bodhicaryāvatāra [बोधिचर्यावतार]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།]. [The Way of the Bodhisattva]. Tengyur, RKTST 3216 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3216&typ=2.

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Pāramitā - The six or ten types of practices which lead an individual to Buddhahood. The practice of perfections is particularly important in Mahāyāna Buddhism in which the entire path of the Bodhisattva to reach full enlightenment is included in the six or ten perfections. The six perfections are that of giving, of discipline, patience, zeal, meditation, and wisdom. The perfection of skill-in-means, aspirations, power, and pristine wisdom are added to them to make ten perfections. Skt पारमिता  Tib ཕར་ཕྱིན།;ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།  Ch 波羅蜜  

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